11 Jul 16 09:57, Robert Bashe wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
GK>> You disagree all the time, does anyone prevent you from doing so?
RB> In Switzerland, the disagreement can force a change in legislation, RB> or even prevent it. The question is not whether disagreement is RB> possible, but whether it has any effect.
Your disagreement would have no effect in Switzerland, either. A disagreement of a *majority of the voters* makes a difference (both in Switzerland and in Germany).
GK>> Yeah, it saved us from the terror of the first republic (some 40000 GK>> executions by "legal" decision of the new government alone), a civil GK>> war, a counter revolution or two, a couple of international wars, and GK>> another crazy dictator.
RB> And gave us the Kaiser and Hitler.
As I said: another crazy dictator. In France is was Napoleon. I cannot see a "revolution" per se being something desirable. Why did you pick the French one as an example? Why not the Glorious Revolution in England? Or the October Revolution in Russia? Or the Khmer Rouge?
Regards, Gerrit
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